| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] COPY .. COMPRESSED |
| Date: | 2013-01-15 19:24:09 |
| Message-ID: | 20130115192409.GD27934@momjian.us |
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On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:55:04AM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Peter Eisentraut (peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net) wrote:
> > Operating on compressed files transparently in file_fdw is obviously
> > useful, but why only gzip?
>
> This isn't really an argument, imv. It's only gzip *right this moment*
> because that's all that I implemented. I've already offered to add
> bzip2 or whatever else people would like.
And this leads to support-my-compression-binary-of-the-day mess. Why
not just allow them to do '|compression-binary'?
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
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